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Kone Oyj (Finnish pronunciation:; officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide. It was founded in 1910 and is now headquartered in Helsinki , Finland, with its corporate offices located in Espoo .
In 1988 the crane business was combined into the KONE Cranes Division. [7] KONE Cranes Division remained an integral component of Kone until the year 1994. In February of that year, Kone made a strategic decision to refocus its efforts on the elevator business, leading to the divestiture of the crane division into an independent entity.
KONE High-Rise Test Tower (Underground) [1] Kone: Tytyri, Finland: 1,148 ft (350 m) 1997 One of Kone's major achievements in elevator technology was tested at this facility. 1 H1 Tower [2] Hitachi: Guangzhou, China: 897 ft (273 m) 2020 Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar Test Tower [3] Otis: Shanghai ...
Safety Standards Compliance: Strict safety standards and regulations are crucial for ensuring safe elevator operation, and the high cost of compliance may limit growth opportunities in some regions. Opportunities. Smart Elevators: The development of smart elevators with IoT capabilities and advanced sensors is offering a new avenue for market ...
Montgomery Elevator: Acquired by Kone, Canadian division in 1985 and U.S. division in 1994. Marshall Elevator: Sold to Otis; Schweizerische Aufzügefabrik AG; Thyssen AG: Merged with Krupp and became ThyssenKrupp in 1999, with subsidiary ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG; ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG announced in 2021 a name change and rebranding to TK ...
The elevators are KONE MonoSpace elevators without machinery rooms, with a speed of 2.5 metres per second. The elevators with windows are fit with cooling, which is rare in Finland. One of the elevators is designed so that firemen can use it in case of fire. [6] The Panorama Tower was completed in April 2008. [13]
Pekka Aksel Herlin (15 July 1932 – 4 April 2003) was a Finnish businessman, the president of the elevator and escalator maker Kone from 1964.. In 1954, Pekka Herlin joined Kone, and succeeded his father as president in 1964, and started planning a new elevator factory in Hyvinkää to replace the "cramped and inefficient" Helsinki plant.
Kone- ja Siltarakennus Oy ("Kone ja Silta"; Swedish: Maskin- och Brobyggnads Ab; "Maskin o.Bro") is a Finnish former engineering company based in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.. The 1892 founded company grew heavily in the 1920s and 1930s by acquiring Finnish engineering companies; the products were ships, steel bridges, weighing scales, separators and other machinery.